5-letter words containing m, u
- quims — vagina; vulva.
- ramus — a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.
- remus — the founder of Rome, in 753 b.c., and its first king: a son of Mars and Rhea Silvia, he and his twin brother (Remus) were abandoned as babies, suckled by a she-wolf, and brought up by a shepherd; Remus was finally killed for mocking the fortifications of Rome, which Romulus had just founded.
- rheum — a thin discharge of the mucous membranes, especially during a cold.
- rhumb — rhumb line.
- romus — a son of either Aeneas or Ascanius: sometimes believed to be the founder of Rome.
- rumal — a kerchief worn as a headdress by men in India.
- rumba — a dance, Cuban in origin and complex in rhythm.
- rumbo — a rum-based cocktail
- rumen — the first stomach of ruminating animals, lying next to the reticulum.
- rummy — any of various card games for two, three, or four players, each usually being dealt seven, nine, or ten cards, in which the object is to match cards into sets and sequences.
- rumor — a story or statement in general circulation without confirmation or certainty as to facts: a rumor of war.
- rumpf — kernel (def 7).
- rumpo — sexual intercourse
- rumpy — a tailless Manx cat
- rusma — a Turkish depilatory
- sagum — a Roman soldier's cloak
- scrum — a Rugby play in which, typically, three members of each team line up opposite one another with a group of two and a group of three players behind them, making an eight-person, three-two-three formation on each side; the ball is then rolled between the opposing front lines, the players of which stand with arms around a teammate's waist, meeting the opponent shoulder to shoulder, and attempt to kick the ball backward to a teammate.
- sebum — the fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands.
- sedum — any fleshy plant belonging to the genus Sedum, of the stonecrop family, usually having small, overlapping leaves and yellow, white, or pink flowers.
- serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
- simul — (in prescriptions) together.
- slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- smbus — System Management Bus
- smout — a child or undersized person
- smush — to mash or push, especially to push down or in; compress: to smush a pie in someone's face.
- smuts — a particle of soot; sooty matter.
- solum — the upper part of the soil profile, which is influenced by plant roots; the A horizon and the B horizon.
- spume — to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- stulm — a shaft for draining a mine
- stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- sumac — any of several shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Rhus of the cashew family, having milky sap, compound leaves, and small, fleshy fruit.
- sumba — one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in Indonesia, S of Flores. 4306 sq. mi. (11,153 sq. km).
- sumer — an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.
- summa — a comprehensive work or series of works covering, synthesizing, or summarizing a particular field or subject.
- sumph — a stupid person; simpleton
- suomi — Finnish name of Finland.
- tatum — Art, 1910–56, U.S. jazz pianist.
- thrum — to play on a stringed instrument, as a guitar, by plucking the strings, especially in an idle, monotonous, or unskillful manner; strum.
- thumb — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thump — a blow with something thick and heavy, producing a dull sound; a heavy knock.
- thurm — to carve (a piece of wood, as a post or table leg) across the grain so as to produce an effect of turning.
- timur — Tamerlane.
- trump — a trumpet.
- tuism — the practice of putting the interests of another before one's own
- tumen — a river in E Asia, flowing NE along the China-North Korea border and then SE along the border between China and Russia to the Sea of Japan. About 325 miles (525 km) long.
- tumid — swollen, or affected with swelling, as a part of the body.
- tummy — stomach: The baby had a pain in his tummy.
- tumor — a swollen part; swelling; protuberance.